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...Numbers 107 Number of people killed in a train crash near Osaka on April 25, Japan's worst rail disaster since 1963 90 sec. Amount of time the train was behind schedule, which investigators suspect prompted the driver to accelerate to dangerous speeds to catch up 37 Number of people killed when a train hit a passenger bus in Sri Lanka on April 27; officials believe the bus driver was racing another bus when he cut in front of the train...
More so than happened with the previous two alternative campaigns, the campus mobilized behind Senior Gift Plus and its divestment goals. But rather than removing its investments in Petrochina and other companies, SEC reports showed that Harvard doubled them...
Unlike tall buildings, planes are meant to be emptied fast. Passengers are supposed to be able to get out within 90 sec., even if only half the exits are available and bags are strewn in the aisles. As it turns out, the people on the Pan Am 747 had at least 60 sec. to flee before fire engulfed the plane. But of the 396 people on board, 326 were killed. Including the KLM victims, 583 people ultimately died--making the Tenerife crash the deadliest accident in civil aviation history...
...again, in shipwrecks as well as plane accidents, he saw examples of people doing nothing at all. He was even able to re-create the effect in his lab. He found that about 45% of people in his experiment shut down (that is, stopped moving or speaking for 30 sec. or often longer) when asked under pressure to perform unfamiliar but basic tasks. "They quit functioning. They just sat there," Johnson remembers. It seemed horribly maladaptive. How could so many people be hard-wired to do nothing in a crisis...
...once some (nontoxic) smoke started pouring into the cabin, everyone got quiet. As most people do, I underestimated how quickly the smoke would fill the space, from ceiling to floor, like a black curtain unfurling in front of us. In 20 sec., all we could see were the pin lights along the floor. As we stood to evacuate, there was a loud thump. In a crowd of experienced flight attendants, still someone had hit his or her head on an overhead bin. In a new situation, with a minor amount of stress, our brains were performing clumsily. As we filed...